Benting time
() The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. |
Black lead
() Plumbago |
Lead
(n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. |
Lead
(n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead |
Lead
(n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. |
Lead
(n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. |
Lead
(n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs |
Lead
(n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. |
Lead
(v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead |
Lead
(v. t.) To place leads between the lines of |
Lead
(v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection |
Lead
(v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known |
Lead
(v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority |
Lead
(v. t.) To go or to be in advance of |
Lead
(v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad |
Lead
(v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course) |
Lead
(v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with |
Lead
(v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc. |
Lead
(v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place |
Lead
(n.) The act of leading or conducting |
Lead
(n.) precedence |
Lead
(n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round |
Lead
(n.) An open way in an ice field. |
Lead
(n.) A lode. |
Lead
(n.) The course of a rope from end to end. |
Lead
(n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. |
Lead
(n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. |
Lead
(n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. |
Project
(n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. |
Project
(n.) That which is projected or designed |
Project
(n.) An idle scheme |
Project
(v. t.) To throw or cast forward |
Project
(v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind |
Project
(v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything |
Project
(v. i.) To shoot forward |
Project
(v. i.) To form a project |
Time
(n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. |
Time
(n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future |
Time
(n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived |
Time
(n.) The duration of one's life |
Time
(n.) A proper time |
Time
(n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. |
Time
(n.) Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition |
Time
(n.) The present life |
Time
(n.) Tense. |
Time
(n.) The measured duration of sounds |
Time
(v. t.) To appoint the time for |
Time
(v. t.) To regulate as to time |
Time
(v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of |
Time
(v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony. |
| time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
avocation
by-line
hobby
pursuit sideline
spare-time activity | an auxiliary activity |
| Human Genome Project | an international study of the entire human genetic material |
scientific research
research project | research into questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses |
time and motion study
time-and-motion study
time-motion study
motion study
time study
work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
| classroom project | a school task requiring considerable effort |
| waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
pilot project
pilot program | activity planned as a test or trial, they funded a pilot project in six states |
undertaking
project
task labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted, he prepared for great undertakings |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the secret United States project set up in to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II |
| time exposure | exposure of a film for a relatively long time (more than half a second) |
harvest
harvest time | the season for gathering crops |
haying
haying time | the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
respite
recess
break time out | a pause from doing something (as work), we took a -minute break, he took time out to recuperate |
free time
spare time | time that is free from duties or responsibilities |
| lead | the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge, the lead was in the dummy |
| lead | a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'), he takes the lead in any group, we were just waiting for someone to take the lead, they didn't follow our lead |
character printer
character-at-a-time printer
serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
| clip lead | a short piece of wire with alligator clips on both ends |
jumper cable
jumper lead
lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
lead
pencil lead | mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness, the marking substance in a pencil |
| lead leading | thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing |
lead-acid battery
lead-acid accumulator | a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte, each cell generates about volts |
| lead-in | wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line |
lead line
sounding line | (nautical) plumb line for determining depth |
| lead pencil | pencil that has graphite as the marking substance |
leash
tether
lead | restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal |
line printer
line-at-a-time printer | printer that serves as an output device on a computer, prints a whole line of characters at a time |
page printer
page-at-a-time printer | a printer that prints one page at a time |
| sounding lead | a metal bob at the end of a sounding line |
| time-ball | a ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time, especially at an observatory |
time bomb
infernal machine | a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time |
| time capsule | container for preserving historical records to be discovered at some future time |
| time clock | clock used to record the hours that people work |
time-delay measuring instrument
time-delay measuring system | chronoscope for measuring the time difference between two events |
| time exposure | a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time |
| time-fuse | a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb) |
| time machine | a science fiction machine that is supposed to transport people or objects into the past or the future |
| time-switch | a switch set to operate at a desired time |
vintage
time of origin | the oldness of wines |
meter
metre
time | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration |
spark advance
lead | the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internalombustion engine |
| light time | distance measured in terms of the speed of light (or radio waves), the light time from Jupiter to the sun is approximately minutes |
| lead | an advantage held by a competitor in a race, he took the lead at the last turn |
lead
track
trail | evidence pointing to a possible solution, the police are following a promising lead, the trail led straight to the perpetrator |
project
projection | a planned undertaking |
space-time
space-time continuum | the four-dimensional coordinate system ( dimensions of space and of time) in which physical events are located |
| time series | a series of values of a variable at successive times |
lead lead-in
lede | the introductory section of a story, it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter |